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IE7 To Support XMLHTTP Requests

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-tricks-for-an-old-dog dept.

Ruliz Galaxor writes "IEBlog posts that Internet Explorer 7 will support a native XMLHTTPRequest object as many other browsers currently do. This will mean no more ActiveX MSXML objects to implement AJAX functionality. It looks like Microsoft is seriously trying to make the lives of us web developers easier. Of course you'll still need to use the Microsoft.XMLHTTP ActiveX object if you want to support IE6 and older."

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  1. Program Managers Anonymous? by manastungare · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hello, I'm Sunava Dutta and I am a Program Manager in the Internet Explorer team.

    It's OK, we understand ...

    1. Re:Program Managers Anonymous? by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > > Hello, I'm Sunava Dutta and I am a Program Manager in the Internet Explorer team.
      >
      > It's OK, we understand ...

      1) We admitted we were powerless over the cruft - that the code base had become unmanageable.
      2) Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
      3) Made a decision to turn our specs and our code over to the care of Gates as we understood Him.
      4) Made a recursive search and complete manifest of our source files.
      5) Admitted to Gates, to ourselves, and to another developer the exact nature of our design flaws.
      6) Were entirely ready to have Gates fire our sorry asses.
      7) Humbly asked Him to allocate the budget for the security upgrades.
      8) Made a list of all bugs we had let slip into the released codebase, and became willing to provide patches for them all.
      9) Provided patches to such systems wherever possible, except when to do so would break existing functionality or introduce new security holes.
      10) Continued to monitor the security mailing lists, and when we were notified of an exploit, promptly fixed the bug.
      11) Sought through coding and specification to improve our conscious contact with Gates, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
      12) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to program managers, and to practice these principles in all our projects.

  2. Re:Backwards Compatability by digitaldc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Inclusion of XMLHTTPRequest now is nice, but in practical terms its perfectly meaningless.

    Yes, but look at it this way, how many times do software companies do something perfectly?

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    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
  3. Embrace and extend my ass... by melted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Goatse, is that you?

  4. IE7XMLHTTP?? by Nanite · · Score: 2, Funny

    OMGWTFBBQ!!

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    God is real unless declared integer.
  5. This is newsworthy? by djdole · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is like reporting about the 12th man to finish a particular marathon. Not really what I'd call newsworthy.

    OK...slightly newsworthy...
    The guy's an inbred, with dumb-as-dirt parents.
    The guy's an overweight diabetic needing constant dialysis.
    The guy's a cripple with glass for bones that can and will break whenever touched.
    AND...The guy is the paperboy/newsman (information provider) for hundreds of thousands of people.

    ...And he finished 12th in the marathon.

    /Firefox. First Place. Falls to ground laughing and pointing at out-of-breath MS finish.